The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-30

ed about the last of March.
7Marion county has female aspirai Tor
medical honors who will soon Wis the
| great city of brotherly love to take leifes
on the treatment of the sick and the rugs
that heal the afflicted. She is younand
very promising lady, still in her teen:
| A Methodist church has been BIZ at
| Trabue, and services win be held ace a
monthly Rev. w. C. Jordan on 'iday
preceding the fourth Sunday in eachontsn
and Rev. F. NJ. DuTTance on the til Sap.
bath in each month. There is Aht OF
about $50 yet unpaid on the church.
Revs. r. c. Brooks, J. A. CHAIRMAN
and j. z. Clark will canvass OrlanS the
interest of Colored State Fair. to bseld in
February, 1888. Sanford, Palatk Ocala
and Gainesville will also be visitednd tne
city offering the best inducementwiu be
selected as the site of the exhibition
The shed which served as a ding room
and store house for the Ahrens Club at
| Ahrensville, was with its contents, stroyed
by fire Saturday night. 1t is thout, with
no reason for thinking otherwise, at some
miscreant was taking a mean revge, for
some fancied wrong, on member mem
| bers of the club, and fired the plac
Readers of the NEWS will rermber
robbery which was committed aOxford,
& Prayer were the victims, and thamount
stolen was $500. The perpetrats have
been caught. They are three ladander 10
years of age, and all the cash habeen re-
covered. The checks the lads burh.
John a. Squires, II years old, nj with
sad accident on June q while hung near
| Winter Haven. His gun went IL acct
dentally and shot nearly all his rigt elbow
away. The elbow was bent at theme, and
the charge entered few inches how and
came out above. The arm will hse TO be
amputated, but no more serious iesult is
feared at present.
A quiet but impressive wedding cemony
took place last week on the Olhtte at
Tampa. The contracting parties we Miss
Emma Cole, Of Key West, and D,iel r.
Reynolds, of Philadelphia The bne, ac-
companied by her relatives and Rev J. B.
! Lynn, went out to the steamer in small
boat, but owing to the quarantine :gula-
tons the minister was not permittedo go
| aboard The bridal couple stood at IL port
| gangway, which was draped with the pan
ish and American flags, while the mister
| in his small boat, at least twelve fe be-
meath the couple, read the marriage sevice
| of the Episcopal church. Rev. Mr.. ynn
and all who witnessed it say it was thelost
| beautiful and impressive service everyit-
messed by then. The happy pair leffor
New York via Havana
The Enterprise Herald has this to ay
about the upper ST. Johns: "Old residnts
in this section say that the channel ofhe
st. Johns river, between this place I'D
Blue Spring, thirty years ago, was finn
ten to fifteen feet in depth, and thathe
current was swift. Now the channel is
from six to ten feet deep and the currnt
| sluggish. They predict also that it is a
mere matter of time ere the upper portSn
| of the river will be in the hands of be
| drainage and reclaimed land committe,
and that the beautiful, winding st. joins,
| banked with its picturesque, troptal
! growths, will be in the historic past I'VE
are borrowing no trouble on that sore,
however, but are still continuing tc enjoy
at every opportunity the beauties of the
| st. Johns, which are manifold On Lake
| Monroe"
The misdoings of an unwise set of young
men are stirring up Crawford. 1t iiunder-
| stood that the same parties, or somt of the
same, who made an assault on B. j. arroll
| at Crawford not long since. also attcked q
| singing school instructor few days, since
| who had just completed a course of Istruc
ton in public school house near William
Johnson's, and have so badly used I'm w
that he is unable TO get away. From al
| that can be learned the assault was etirely
Inprovoked, as the man had given com
| plete satisfaction, not word of CON laint
| having been made by any of the parons
but all were apparently well pleased, iftel
the close of his school, probably last ,itur
| day, June 26, while standing in a NAL
| crowd in social conversation, he was sud
denly and Unexpectedly struck on the ,ack
of the head, and so numerically beata a!
to be rendered helpless.
Aleck Perkins (colored), who was ding
| e;1r Il ola Dol -,
| in his refusal to work on the streets, wa in
generated in a sweat box with a par o.
eighteen-inch gigs attached to his anlles
| succeeded in making his escape, and n {
| truly professional manner The cell il
which he was confined was one of sevs'a
in the basement, its dimensions being abmt
| five feet by six feet; he had succeeded il
detaching from the wall a strip of WOO
| twelve inches in length and one inch thiW
with this he had pried out a board betwesI
| two stanchions, which left an opening j
about 12xlS inches. He was seen this morn
| ing about 4:15, and spoken to, everythim
seeming all right, and at Sis, a half hou
| later, he was missed he had taken advar
tage of the time when everybody about tn
building is engaged and with the larges
| gigs in the city clamped around his ankles
| had gotten out of the small opening he ha
made and got off.
Speaking Of man named Miner, VIII
disappeared from that place few days age
the Lake Helen correspondent of the DeLan
| Chronicle says: There is no longer an
room to doubt that he is a scamp and
fraud. II seems that his boasts about hi
money--his having $4,000 in bank, etc
| were lies, coined out of whole cloth. Hi
brother-in-law, who came a few days az
| and took away Mrs. Miner and her children
| says he has not dollar to his name. II
| bought out Mr.. Ogden, but paid nothing o
| the contract, and when he went to jackson
| vile with Mr.. Sheldon, the latter bougl
him round-trip ticket TO Lynchburg, Va
| This Mr.. Sheldon will lose, together with
| large store bill Other crooked things hav
since come to light. This fasco places MI
Sheldon in an embarrassing position. Heav
orders for goods had just been ordered o
the strength of Miners promised financis
support, and engagements had been entere
into that cannot now be metz
The most distressing accident that ha
ever happened in Brooksville occurre
| Wednesday morning. A. N. Chelf and hi
boys, Owen and Roy drove their one hors
wagon down town to get a sewing machin
and some forage. On their return hon
Roy sprang out OF the wagon TO open th
| gate, Mr. Chelf sitting in the rear end of tn
wagon holding the sewing machine. A
| Owen drove through the gate the hors
! locked back, saw the machine and too
| fright, running at full speed down throug
the grove. Mr.. Chelf vainly tried to pu
Owen back over the seat by his jacket, bu
he held on TO the lines until they reaches
the fence, when the horse turned quickly